was a method that Rockefeller used by combining firms into one cooperation.
What is Horizontal Integration?
100
This Amendment allowed all men, of age, the right to vote
What is the 15th Amendment?
100
These towns grew over night because people believed that they would find gold.
What is a Boom town?
100
a person who invests in a corporation by buying stock and is a partial owner.
What is a stockholder?
200
This man was a philanthropist and made all of his money in the STEEL business.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
200
the combining of companies that supply equipment and services needed for a particular industry.
What is Vertical Integration?
200
if your grandfather was a slave you cannot vote
What is the Grandfather Clause?
200
laid a telegraph line between the U.S. and Europe. Transatlantic telegraph carried messages in a matter of seconds.
Who is Cyrus Field?
200
a stockholders share of a company’s profits, usually as a cash payment.
What is a Dividend?
300
This man invented the telephone
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
300
the period of rebuilding after The Civil War
What is Reconstruction?
300
This Amendment freed all of the slaves in the United States
What is the 13th Amendment?
300
individuals who controlled the nation’s train rails.
What is a Railroad Baron?
300
to protect trade and commerce against unlawful restraint and monopoly
What is The Sherman Anti-Trust Act?
400
Created the first gasoline motorized car.
Who is Henry Ford?
400
A pardon/ forgiveness
What is amnesty?
400
This Amendment allowed everyone in America to become a citizen
What is the 14th Amendment?
400
160 Acres of free land and had to live and farm the land for 5 years.
What is the Homestead Act?
400
shares of ownership a company sells in its business which often carry voting power.
What is a Stock?
500
This man was a philanthropists that made all of his money in OIL.
Who is John Rockefeller?
500
a production system with machines and workers arranged so that each person performs an assigned task again and again as the item passes before him or her.
What is an assembly line?
500
were a series of laws passed in the south after the Civil War were to control free men and take advantage of workers on a plantation.
What are Black Codes?
500
In his life he made several important inventions, but none match up to the electric light bulb.
Who is Thomas Edison?
500
almost total control of an industry by a single producer.